My love for seafood began early. My parents loved seafood and a favorite Sunday outing was lunch at Jay’s Marine Grill on Oak Lawn Avenue in Dallas, Texas. I don’t remember what I ordered or was ordered for me, but I do remember enjoying my first fried oyster and scallop from my mother’s [...]
“Crater Lake: overwhelmingly yet sublimely beautiful. Moody. At times brilliantly blue, ominously somber; at other times buried in a mass of brooding clouds. The lake is magical, enchanting – a remnant of fiery times, a reflector of its adjacent forested slopes, a product of Nature’s grand design.
Few places on earth command overwhelming awe from observers, [...]
If you listen, read or watch the news all you’ll hear about pork is the wheeling and dealing that goes on in Washington to get legislation passed. For me The Food Chanel, cookbooks and cooking magazines are preferable. Here you’ll find the real thing – pork as a flavorful protein.
Pork has frequently been a controversial [...]
A cheese dance for a wedding? La Nozze di Foglie di Salvia or The Marriage of Sage Leaves? Has Charles gone nuts again? Yes! I’m nuts for Italian food, Italian cheese, Italian opera, Italian bread and Italian wine. Anywhere there’s an abundant natural resource of food, chances are you’ll find Italians and Americans of Italian [...]
